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David Chapman is a Senior Lecturer in the Communication and Systems Department. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of Institution of Engineering and Technology, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Having previously worked as a design engineer on optical fibre communication systems with Plessey Telecommunications, he joined the Open University in 1986 and has contributed material on telecommunications and ICT to a wide range of courses. He was Director of the ICT Programme Committee from 2003 to 2006 and Head of the ICT Department from 2006 to 2007 (when a reorganisation saw the end of the department).
David is married with two sons, uses a bicycle to get to work even when it's raining, and is a season-ticket holder for the MK Dons.
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Teaching
David is currently presentation chair for T325 Technologies for Digital Media and a member of the course team presenting T324 Keeping Ahead in Information and Communication Technologies.
Other courses that he has contributed to in recent years include:
- TU100 My Digital Life (first presentation 2011)
- T175 Networked Living: Exploring Information and Communication Technologies (2005.)
- T823 Multiservice Networks: controls (2004)
- T822 Multiservice Networks: structures (2003)
Also the discontinued courses T305 Digital Communications, T322 Digital Telecommunications, PT629 Digital Telecommunications: Transmission and T102 Living with technology. David chaired the production of T305 and most of its presentations, and over ten years (1999 - 2008) the course was studied by a total of around 10,000 students. Associated with T305 were seven TV programmes produced by the BBC, including African Renaissance which was later used in T324 and can be viewed on ITunes U.
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Recent output
- (With Magnus Ramage) 'Perspectives on Information' Routledge 2011
- 'The Information Society' Block 5 Part 1 of TU100: My Digital Life The Open University 2011
- 'Geography is History' Block 1 Part 4 of TU100: My Digital Life The Open University 2011
- Academic advisor for the OU-BBC collaboration on Click Radio
- Academic advisor for OU-BBC co-production "The Virtual Revolution" (Winner of a digital Emmy and a Bafta)
- 'Information and Meaning'. Presented at Cyber2008, Stockholm, November 2008
- (With Chris Bissell) ‘Keeping Ahead in ICT: A New Approach to Updating for Final Year Undergraduates’ SEFI and IGIP Joint Annual Conference 2007, Miskolc, Hungary 1st - 4th July 2007
- (With Chris Bissell and Adrian Poulton) 'Enabling technologies'. Block 1 of Technologies for Digital Media. The Open University 2009
- (With Hazel Johnson and Gordon Wilson) 'ICTs in an unequal world'. Block 3 Part 2 of Information and Communication Technologies in Context. The Open University 2007
- 'The Impact of Mobile Technology in Developing Nations' open2.net 8/2/10
- 'The Virtual Revolution: Themes and Alternative Readings' OpenLearn blog post 8/3/10
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Disclaimer: these may or may not have anything to do with David's job, and certainly should not be taken to represent official OU statements!
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